Houston lost a lot of bars and nightclubs due to the smoking ban. And of course a crap load of taxes.
They all moved outside the city limits.
Since there are many more NON-smokers than smokers, that's not likely to be the cause of "a lot of bars and nightclubs" closing.
Admit it - you just made that up.
You're forgetting that drinkers are smokers.
And?
How does that impact what I wrote?
There are now more NON-smokers than smokers. Some drink alcohol and some don't.
Actually there have always been more nonsmokers than smokers. Even after Big Tobacco hooked army vets in World War One and propagated the whole thing via mass media, smokers never exceeded about 40% of the population (here).
Check out how times change --- watch what Mike Wallace does in the first ten seconds here:
Can you imagine anybody doing that now?
Evidence like this lets us know it wasn't that long ago at all that we were subhuman knuckledraggers. And in many things still are.
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